European Summer School on Cold War History

A unique conference specifically for PhD students and early career researchers to discuss the effects of the Cold War in the fields of politics, culture, and diplomacy.

An excellent idea. All the papers were well chosen and its interesting to learn from other students' research. Everything was very well organised…I will highly recommend it to other PhD students.

Student, 2011

A joint initiative between European institutions studying the Cold War, the summer school convenes each year in early September. The school has a very high student to faculty ratio (2:1) allowing participants to have in depth discussions about their research with established scholars in the field.

The call for papers is issued each year around January. PhD students and early career researchers (no more than 3 years from PhD completion) are invited to submit proposals. We encourage submissions on any aspect of the Cold War, broadly defined, with a particular interest in papers that make use of newly available primary sources and innovative methodologies.